Question

(iv) Why did they decide to leave the cottage?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The peddler discards the public highway and keeps to the woods after leaving the crofter's cottage because he wants to avoid being caught with the thirty kronors that he had stolen from the crofter's house. He walks through mazes of forest paths but lands nowhere.

Answer 2

Here it is ,

They decide to leave the cottage because they realised that they had entered the wrong cottage and they were afraid of being accused of stealing chickens.

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